README.html #2

<h1>SDP Documentation Information</h1>
<p>Now being converted to ASCIIDoctor format (*.adoc), from which we can create HTML and PDF output.</p>
<h1>How to run</h1>
<p>With tools installed, it is as simple as:</p>
<pre><code>make
</code></pre>
<h1>Installing Tools</h1>
<ul>
<li><code>pandoc</code> for conversions</li>
<li><code>asciidoctor</code> for basic HTML</li>
<li><code>asciidoctor-pdf</code> for PDF output</li>
</ul>
<p>Downloads:</p>
<ul>
<li>https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#system-requirements</li>
<li>https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-pdf/#getting-started</li>
<li>https://pandoc.org/installing.html</li>
</ul>
<h1>Converting from MS Word</h1>
<p>Conversions from Word done like this:</p>
<p>https://asciidoctor.org/docs/migrating-from-msword/</p>
<p>pandoc --from=docx --to=asciidoc --wrap=none --atx-headers --extract-media=extracted-media SDP_Guide.Unix#13.docx &gt; output.adoc</p>
<p>You may need to look at the extracted-media directory.</p>
<h1>Finding non UTF8 chars</h1>
<p>When converting from MS Word you may get an error message from <code>asciidoctor-pdf</code> about UTF8/binary problems 
and things like smart quotes, or em-dashes.</p>
<p>perl -ne 'print "$. $_" if m/[\x80-\xFF]/' SDP_Guide.Unix.adoc</p>